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- The Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama sighted the coast along what is now Durban on Christmas Day in 1497 and named the country Terra Natalis, after the Portuguese word (“Natal”) for Christmas.
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The Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama sighted the coast along what is now Durban on Christmas Day in 1497 and named the country Terra Natalis, after the Portuguese word (“Natal”) for Christmas. The Portuguese maintained a trading settlement farther north at Delagoa Bay from the 1540s.
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The Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama discovered along the Coast what is now Durban. This event occurred on Christmas Day, in 1497. (This was why the area was named:'Terra Natalis', which is the Portuguese word for Christmas.)
Jun 23, 2024 · The Portuguese navigator, Vasco da Gama, is said to have sighted the coast of what is now Durban on Christmas Day in 1497. He named the country “Terra Natalis,” using the Portuguese word for Christmas.
- Hubert Wolf
Durban and nearby Pinetown form KwaZulu-Natal’s economic and industrial center. Factories there concentrate on textiles and clothing, food processing, chemicals, sugar production, and oil processing.
(This was why the Area was named:'Terra Natalis', which is the Portuguese word for Christmas.) The British settlement at Port Natal grew rapidly because in 1835, Captain A.F. Gardiner secured a treaty with Dingane. This treaty ceded the Southern half of Natal to the British.
He named Durban as Ponta Pescaria and St Lucia as Lagoa Santa Lucia. The following European visitors were survivours of some of the shipwrecks until the 1800 s when settlers started becoming interested in Natal.
It is called the garden province and is the home of the Zulu nation. The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama sighted the coast along what is now Durban on Christmas Day in 1497 and named the country Terra Natalis, after the Portuguese word (“Natal”) for Christmas.
